by Dave Johnson | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog
Have our trade policies helped or hurt the country? You can look down at equations and models, or you can look up and see what is happening around you. Equations and models will tell you that "free trade" is a good thing. But if you look up and see what is happening...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog
The Republican Party's official "autopsy" begins, "The GOP today is a tale of two parties. One of them, the gubernatorial wing, is growing and successful. The other, the federal wing, is increasingly marginalizing itself..." But the party may need to a fresh autopsy...
by Robert Kuttner | Apr 1, 2013 | Blog
November 5, 2014 Jubilant Republicans took back the Senate in yesterday's mid-term election, and appeared to have increased their majority in the House by about ten seats. "Barack Obama is now the lamest of lame ducks," said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, now the...
by Richard Long | Apr 1, 2013 | Blog
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power.” Ah yes, the immortal words of philosopher Antonio Montana in his seminal work, “Scarface.” Unfortunately, he has a point. Those who have the money in America do have the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog
Everyone's talking about marriage this week. So it's hard to blame speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives T. W. Shannon for wanting to get in on the action with a bill to divert federal funds for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to fund a...
by Digby | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog
This is how they achieve their long term goals --- under the radar, changing the way the numbers are calculated to prove an ideological point and change our understanding of how the world works. The story says the Senate endorsed "a model called 'dynamic scoring,'...
